I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“I cannot take credit for the fact that I do not have the soul of a psychopath.” — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
You're saying the gods don't have free will." "The power to make mistakes," Penny said. "Only we have that. Mortals — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“Virtue lies in our power, and similarly so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Love is not only a desire to do something that you want. It is a combination of care, responsibility, honesty, understanding, sincerity… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have come to believe that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I wonder whether being a scientists daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate. — Lucy Hawking Copy Share Image
The important thing to realize is that while we may not escape our own basic pattern, we can work in harmony with… — Swami Yogananda Copy Share Image
I am a determinist. As such, I do not believe in free will. The Jews believe in free will. They believe that… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If there really is a complete unified theory that governs everything, it presumably also determines your actions. But it does so in… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I know that I have still before me a difficult path to traverse. I must reduce myself to zero. So long as… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In fact, the machine doesn't have the consciousness we have, the free will that we have, and to surrender one's free will,… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
...reasonable natures have free will, and can turn to the good or the bad voluntarily by themselves. They either attach themselves to… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some people believe God is involved in every little decision we make. Some people believe you're given the free will to make… — Dean Cain Copy Share Image
No one else can want for me. No one can substitute his act of will for mine. It does sometimes happen that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“As Lynn writes: "What angers me is the loss of control. At any moment someone could come to me, be dressed the… — Lynn Hersha Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that we can write and live our own scripts more than most people will acknowledge. I also know the price… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The same thing can be both good and bad. Whenever you speak of good, bad is also present. The world is a… — Swami Satchidananda Copy Share Image
“if you truly want to know why I'm helping you, you won't get any easy answers. It's not because I believe in… — Autumn Christian Copy Share Image
The person in peak-experiences feels himself, more than other times, to be the responsible, active, creating center of his activities and of… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
... the general consent of all that sect is that God (by his foreknowledge, counsel, and wisdom) has no assured election, neither… — John Knox Copy Share Image
When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling. — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
A motto of the human race: Let me do as I like, and give me approval as well. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The essence of spiritual life is simply to use our free will properly. — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
“While your wants get you into conflicts, only your wants can get you out of them.” — Scott Shumway Copy Share Image
